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Anonymous Fri Oct 7 18:50:54 2011 No.2124068 [Reply] [Original]

Hi /lit/ I´m foreigner and i wanna to explore "the real-folk-deep-american culture".
Is there anything for me?

>>	Truman Capote !!cO9KVBDtkqQ Fri Oct 7 18:54:54 2011 No.2124075 File: 198 KB, 1024x1325, murkan.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] twain

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 18:56:54 2011 No.2124079 >>2124068 american here, could you be more specific? are you looking for something colonial, or modern? 'folk' culture could represent many things

Anonymous Fri Oct 7 18:56:54 2011 No.2124080

American Here, I don't really know what that is. do you mean folk tales? then I recommend Paul Bunyan or Johnny Appleseed stories. (characters not authors)
For a really glossed over look at the south, Br'er Rabbit stories might do. For California, try John Steinbeck books like Tortilla Flats.
Also, anything and everything by Mark Twain probably applies here as well.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 18:59:54 2011 No.2124083 Evasion by anonymous.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 18:59:54 2011 No.2124084 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 19:05:54 2011 No.2124098 Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass Henry David Thoreau - Everything Emerson - Everything Mark Twain - Pretty much everything Emily Dickinson - Poems

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 19:17:54 2011 No.2124125 ok, so if we are just naming random stuff- a slice of americana "Our Town"- Thornton Wilder

Anonymous Fri Oct 7 19:27:54 2011 No.2124144
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First, thanks for the answers
>>2124075
I´ve read Twain (at least his most popular works)
>>2124079
Nowdays: Tea Party background, rednecks, the life in towns like "Smallville" but also the progressivism background of people like S.Sarandon o M.Moore. I don´t know.
>>2124080
>>2124084
Ok. I take note

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 19:34:54 2011 No.2124155 Sinclair Lewis William Faulkner

>>	twattle !EA3bdMFX0. Fri Oct 7 19:50:54 2011 No.2124185 >>2124083 This and only this. Everything else can suck my bald nutsuck.

Anonymous Fri Oct 7 22:21:54 2011 No.2124436

Entry Level List (I'm still an undergrad):

Early stuff:
Washington Irving (especially Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow)
James Fenimore Cooper

Middle Stuff:
Mark Twain
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Jack London

Later Stuff:
John Steinbeck
William Faulkner
Flannery O'Connor
Sherwood Anderson ("Winesburg, Ohio" is a personal favorite of mine)
Cormac McCarthy

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 23:25:54 2011 No.2124536 autobiography of benjamin franklin to kill a mockingbird anything by ayn rand call of the wild the naked and the dead undaunted courage a river runs through it the killer angels The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner >op is a fag

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 23:37:54 2011 No.2124549 I'd say Steinbeck, but he's a socialist faggot. Go for Mark Twain.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 7 23:47:54 2011 No.2124566 Updike

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